The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-10-05
Mr.. COLOROW'S ODD TRAITS.
BILL NYE FINDS HIM lMPULSlvE IN THE
MATTER OF HOMICIDE.

that was Promptly Accepted-A Speech by
Colorow that Proved Fatal TO His Hapless
Stenographer.
The recent ruction on the part OF
William Ii. Colorow. Duke of Raw
hide Buttes and heir presumptive TO the
throne of Yellow Jacket Park. brings
the Indian once more to our notice and
teaches us that eternal vigilance is the
price of Government land on the
frontier.
Sig. Colorow is of Indian parentage
and his lineage, such as 1t is, is very
long. His ancestors run back as far
as the earliest dawn of the Oh ristian
era. They claimed the land ex tending
in Il southernly direction from the
North Pole, and seemed to ignore the
fact that it had been sold for taxes.
The Indian has always been in favor
of representation without taxation, and
Colorow has believed in community
of grub, allowing the white man to re-
tain u controlling interest in common,
wel-browed toll. He has always been
willing to divide his bread with the
pale-face He has offered, time and
again, to give the white man the bread
that was sweetcncd with honest sweat,
VIII lie he took his plain. He says that
to prefer bread that tastes of perspira-
ton shows depraved taste.
Colorow has for years been terror
to the people of Northwestern
Colorado, Eastern Utah and southern
Wyoming. Every spring it used to be
his custom to stroll into North Park
and prospect for prospectors. Once he
came to call on me. He had been there
longer than | had and so, of course, it
was nothing more than etiquette that
he should call on me-
He seemed to enjoy his call very
much. could think of nothing to say,
though generally am of a bright and
happy disposit on. After | had asked
him how his mother was, could not
think of anything else to interest him.
Finally thought of Capt. John Smith
and how he amused hostile band by
showing them his compass and new
suspenders. J had no compass, but |
had watch which | carried in buck
skin watch-pocket, and | thought |
would show him the sweop-second and
fy-back and let him see the wheels
go round.
When Colorow is captured, if the
United States of America has no use for
that watch, would be glad to have it
returned to me at No. 32 Park row,
New York,
Colorow is Il man of few words. will
never forget what he said to me when
he went away. He held up two fingers
and said in voice that did not seem to
waver:
"Mebbe so, two sleeps more, you
git out"
l sometimes think that when man
says very little we are more apt to take
an interest in what he says. 1t was
so in his case. got to thinking over
his remark after he had gone and
decided to accept of his generous offer.
He had given me two sleeps; but |
do not require much sleep anyway, and
when l got to thinking about Colorow
and his restless manner while he was
my guest | could not sleep so well as |
had formerly and so have been doing
the most of my sleeping since that in II
more thickly settled country. ] remem-
l was so restless that last night that |
walked feverishly about twenty-five
miles, Judge, in a northerly direction.
left small but growing mine there
at that time in charge of the Utes. and
hope they used it judic!ousy.
The Ute Nation is divided into two
yections-viz., the Southern Utes, who
have been pretty generally friendly,
and the Nothern or White River Utes,
who break out into fits of emotional
insanity whenever their ponies got
their bellies full Of grass.
My policy one which, / regret to
say, has never been adopted by the
Governments TO hire sufficient num-
Der of armed herders to take the entire
grand remnant sale of Indian tribes
out on the plains and watch them all
summer, rounding up and counting
them every morning and evening to
see that they are all there. Through
the day they might be kept busy pull
ing up the "pizen-weed" which grows
ALI over the prazino grounds of the